From afar it almost looks like a Hobbit house, but this ancient rock located nearby Chester, England, is the designated spot of the ancient Romans of Britain as the sanctuary of the…
Ancient Rome
200 AD, not too far from today Lublin, in Poland, there was a camp, or perhaps a village, where many Germanic populations, most likely Vandals, decided to stop by, perhaps for a…
Today’s consideration of prostitution has a negative connotation, often seen as a shameful profession and something to completely avoid, deplorable practice both for the prostitute and the client. In the past though,…
The birth of Poppea (in Latin Poppaea Sabina), has been set between 30 and 32 AD, daughter of Titus Ollius (praetor during the ruling of Tiberius) and Poppaea Sabina the Elder. Of…
During Autumn 2019, in London, a sapphire ring from the Malborough collection has been sold at the auction for 500,000 pounds, creating a big clamour. This marvellous jewel, a masterpiece in miniature…
In Rome, on the Campidoglio hill, it is extremely famous the Tarpeian Rock, linked to one of the most ancient tales of the city, where myth, legend and reality mix all up:…
It is still uncertain when and how the man discovered for the very first time the excitement of having a glass of wine. It is hypothesised that our hunter-gatherer ancestors used to…
Lugnano in Teverina is a small village surrounded by green hills which fall down slowly towards the Valley of Tiber. At the beginning of the I AD in one of those hills,…
The skeleton of an unknown man has been discovered in Northamptonshire, England, and carries along a series of new details about the ritual burials in the Roman era. The bones belong to…
A cloud of mystery has only surrounded the disappearance in the II century AD of one of the most valorous legions of the Roman Empire known as the “Ninth Legion”, “Legio VIIII…